Policy Audit Release 1.7 API

A new release of Qualys Policy Audit (PA Release 1.7), which is released in January 2026, includes new and updates to an existing API. This API notification highlights recently released changes, enabling you to identify use cases that can benefit from the updated APIs.

What’s New?

Get Posture Info API

POST /pcrs/5.0/posture/postureInfo/

DTD or XSD changes: No

With this release, we have implemented two new enhancements in the Get Posture Info API. They are:

View QDS Score in API Response

Retrieve Posture Information with Posture ID

View QDS Score in API Response

With this enhancement, you can view the Qualys Detection Score (QDS) in the API responses.

Previously, the QDS could be viewed only in the Posture tab.

Retrieve Posture Information with Posture ID

With this enhancement, we have introduced another way to retrieve posture information using the postureId. When postureId or postureIds are provided, specifying the policyId and hostId is no longer required.

For more details, please refer to the release notes here: https://docs.qualys.com/en/vm/release-notes/mergedProjects/qualys_pa/pa/release_1_7_api.htm